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Black Girl Burnout

Money Confidence Starts Here: A Feel-Good Talk With Aja Evans - Part 2

Black Girl Burnout

Kelley Bonner

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this compassionate and wisdom-filled continuation of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley is joined again by financial therapist Aja Evans for Part 2 of their conversation on healing your relationship with money. This episode dives into the how—how we move from judgment and shame into grace, clarity, and empowered action with our finances.

Today You’ll Learn:

  • Practical steps to shift out of financial shame and into awareness
  • How to reframe negative money stories and internal narratives
  • Why gentleness is key in your financial healing journey
  • Tools to rebuild your relationship with money from a place of peace

This episode is a grounding reminder that healing your finances isn’t about hustle or shame—it’s about compassion, emotional awareness, and choosing a better way forward.

✨ Episode Highlights:

00:52 Moving from judgment to healing

02:08 Letting go of guilt in your financial journey

04:15 The power of rewriting your money story

06:42 Asia's tools for emotional and financial regulation

10:30 Why your healing doesn’t have to be perfect to be powerful

This is your invitation to opt into financial softness, to listen without judgment, and to begin creating a new relationship with money—one rooted in love and liberation.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here, and I am so excited to continue this conversation with Asia Evans.

0:16.6

We were talking about money stories and myths.

0:19.1

And now we're going to move into really the how.

0:22.3

How do we get out of the negative spiral, the judgment, and how do we heal our relationship with money?

0:29.9

Let's get back into the conversation with Asia and hear what she has next for us.

0:45.7

We are back with Asia Evans and we are continuing our conversation all about how to let go of the shame around money, to clear space, to do the right things. And that's

0:53.0

what I want to talk about now. It's like we've let it go

0:55.3

earlier in this conversation. Now let's step into what can I do today? What are some of the

1:01.7

money skills, finance skills we need to start? What are some tips you can give us so that we can

1:07.3

move forward feeling good about our finances? Yeah. So the top one that I will say is that

1:13.1

you would be shocked how many people are money avoidant. So they are avoiding their bank account.

1:18.3

They're not looking at their credit card statements. They're not looking at that 401k.

1:22.2

And I want to hold your hand as we go look. So the first thing that we're going to do is get financially

1:29.8

naked. And that's what I call when I am wanting to encourage my clients or anybody, anybody

1:35.3

listening. You can go to my website, Asia Evans Counseling, AJA, and download a downloadable

1:43.0

worksheet that's going to help you get financially naked.

1:46.1

And what I'm talking about is how much money do I have incoming?

1:49.8

Like what's coming into my bank account every month?

1:52.1

What's going out?

1:53.2

How much does it cost for me to live my life to take care of myself or my family?

1:58.8

What money do I owe?

2:00.5

Do you have a car payment? Do you have a mortgage? Do you have

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